You’re a fan of Bob Dylan, right? But not really. You’re a fan of his music. You prefer covers by Adele, Johnny Cash, The Byrds or Joan Baez, because you don’t much care for Dylan’s voice. And if you’re like most people, you think Bob Dylan is sort of a jerk.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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Internal Affairs
We’d all do well to hesitate before calling someone a criminal, before calling a cop a thug.
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Extraordinary Time
No longer are synods stage-managed pageants that simply ratify the pope’s decisions.
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Continental Shift
‘The faith is Europe,” Hilaire Belloc claimed a century ago, “and Europe is the faith.” To say the same today might provoke laughter or confusion. When we think of Europe, is the first thing that comes to mind Christianity?Now, quick—say the first word that pops into yo
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American Idol
The pope is not blaming the crony capitalists of the third world. He’s blaming us.
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The inspiring NCAA run of Hank “The Bank” Gathers and the 1990 Loyola Marymount Lions.
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The Pope and the Academy
Will the ‘Francis effect’ improve relations between academics and doctrinal guardians?
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A Terrible Beauty
And I say to my people’s masters, Beware/ Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people/ Who shall take what ye would not give.
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Found in Translation
It is naïve to imagine that any conversation possesses a single explicit meaning.